Lieberman Pushes New Iran Resolution

by: Matt Stoller

Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 14:54

Senators Lieberman and Kyl are offering an amendment today calling on the US to combat, contain and roll back Iran's aggression in Iraq. It also designates the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization.

As General Petraeus and his troops continue to defeat al-Qaeda in Iraq - and they are - the biggest threat to Iraq's stability and independence is Iranian intervention: both direct and through the militias and death squads that Tehran arms, funds and directs.

It's a meaningless sense of the Senate resolution, but then again, that's mostly what the Senate does these days.  It's worth revisiting Dave Meyer's July 17th piece on why Lieberman's first Iran resolution passed.  It looks like the same play.